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Why the dreamcast failed

Posted: February 3rd, 2009, 2:19 pm
by Luke
[QUOTE=aa]But from what I have seen and heard, almost everyone is blaming the failure of the PS3 on its price tag.   [/QUOTE]In the beginning. It's really not so much the case anymore. Now the big problem is its lack of exclusive titles next to the 360. Why pay $100 (or whatever it is) more for a PS3, when you can buy a 360 and have the almost exact same game with identical graphics, PLUS a lot more games!?

Why the dreamcast failed

Posted: February 3rd, 2009, 2:53 pm
by steer

The Dreamcast failed because people cannot be trusted to make correct choices, but are allowed to try anyway.  Proof:

Viewership numbers for reality TV
Celebrity endorsements swaying votes in elections all around
Smoking
Failure of the Saturn
Failure of the Dreamcast


I have seen democracy work, though. There is a complimentary pail of suckers at a business I go through frequently, and when it gets picked over, only coconut suckers are left on the bottom, and I pass as well.

The ppl have spoken.





Why the dreamcast failed

Posted: February 4th, 2009, 3:03 am
by aa
The PS3 has a lot of excellent exclusive titles released for the system.

There is Resistance: Fall of Man and Motorstorm first of all, then Heavenly Sword, Grand Theft Auto 4 and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.

There is also Metal Gear Solid 4 which is soon to be released on the system.

The Xbox 360 has a lot more games, that is true, but don't most gamers concern themselves with the quality of software rather than their quantity?

I personally also dislike Mass Effect, and Bioshock can be played just as well on the PS3.

Most PS3 games have identical graphics with those of Xbox 360, but the PS3 still uses Blu-ray.

I also agree that most people cannot be expected to make correct choices for themselves. 

One would be surprised at the wide variety of reasons in which gamers had initially bought the PS2.

A considerable number of people bought the console because it was the most popular one or because most of their friends had it, or simply because it was released by Sony.

Most people in 1999 were stupid enough to buy games for the PS1 and Nintendo 64 and thus ignore the Dreamcast, and the same applied to most of 2000.

This also helps to support my initial argument that the Dreamcast failed because it was released too early.

Companies have to make right decisions at the right time when people are more willing to make correct choices for themselves.

It just turned out that in 2002 most people were willing to make the wrong choice of buying the PS2.

Perhaps the economy was better and less people were skeptical or dissatisfied, perhaps there was a shift in the cosmos which made people make more stupid decisions, but it was most likely that 2002 was the year when the PS1/N64 era ended and a new PS2 era began.

Sega was thus out by three years in releasing the Dreamcast in 1999.

Companies make dumb decisions sometimes: there is nothing more to it.

Democracy also never worked: it was the reason why most US presidents who won elections in the 20th Century were Republican and not Democratic, why Kennedy was assassinated and why Clinton was impeached.

Why the dreamcast failed

Posted: February 4th, 2009, 1:34 pm
by Luke
Uh.. GTA4 is also on the 360, buddy

Why the dreamcast failed

Posted: February 4th, 2009, 1:40 pm
by Luke
[QUOTE=aa] It just turned out that in 2002 most people were willing to make the wrong choice of buying the PS2. [/QUOTE]How so? The PS2 has proved itself to be a very impressive machine. It's been in production for almost ten years and still continues to sell and release good/decent games for it here in the States and in Japan.. do you think this is some kind of fluke or what?

By the way, if you don't start doing some kind of research to backup your claims and/or arguments, I'm no longer going to reply to them.

Why the dreamcast failed

Posted: February 4th, 2009, 9:15 pm
by N64Dude1
[QUOTE]Most people in 1999 were stupid enough to buy PlayStation and Nintendo 64 games[/QUOTE]

Now just you wait a minute,people weren't stupid to buy N64 games

As for SONY stuff I'm going to have to agree. PS2 was always inferior to the competition in every way.Game wise all systems were better,tech wise Dreamcast and Xbox had more for it.

Metal Gear Solid 4 was released a whole year ago to critical acclaim.

Suprisingly Stalin you were right for once except PS2 sold on glut,all successful system sell by having 95% crap and the other 5% being good been that way since the 2600 with one break during the SNES days


Why the dreamcast failed

Posted: February 4th, 2009, 9:40 pm
by aa
I must admit that I made some minor mistakes in my most recent argument.

GTA4 is indeed also released on the Xbox 360, and Metal Gear Solid 4 has already been released on the PS3 in the US.

Despite this, the rest of my argument is superb.

Resistance, Motorstorm, Heavenly Sword and Uncharted are exceptional titles for the PS3 which were released exclusively for the system.

Moreover, some have taken my argument far too seriously.

The main point of the second part of my argument had been to prove that the Dreamcast failed because it was released too early.

When I had said that in 2002 most people made the wrong choice of purchasing the PS2, it was used for a humorous effect.

It thus does not affect my argument at all.

Whether those who had purchased the PS2 in 2002 made right choices or wrong choices does not change my argument, as my main point was claiming that 2002 was the year when the PS1/N64 era ended and a new PS2 era began.

Why the dreamcast failed

Posted: February 5th, 2009, 2:02 am
by Luke
[QUOTE=aa]Despite this, the rest of my argument is superb. Resistance, Motorstorm, Heavenly Sword and Uncharted are exceptional titles for the PS3 which were released exclusively for the system. Moreover, some have taken my argument far too seriously. [/QUOTE]Maybe because you're full of opinions rather than facts?